A Five-Minute Life
by Emma Scott
Release Date: May 16th, 2019
A Five-Minute Life, an all-new standalone new adult romance by International bestselling author Emma Scott.
Thea Hughes has five minutes to live.
A car accident stole her parents and left her with the second-worst documented case of amnesia in the world. She now has only minutes of experiences, of consciousness, of life…before her memory is wiped clean. The once effervescent artist with a promising future is reduced to scribbling with pens and paper, living an empty, quiet life, three hundred seconds at a time.
Jim Whelan is on autopilot.
A foster kid shuffled around the system since birth, he’s lived his entire life without knowing love…and it’s taken its toll—until he learned to fight back, carry his armor, and keep his head down.
Working as an orderly in the Blue Ridge Sanitarium, deep in Virginia countryside, Jim looked up…and found Thea.
When Thea has the chance to break free of her five-minute prison with a risky, experimental surgery, it could lead them both to an epic love they never thought possible… or one that could require the ultimate sacrifice.
A stand-alone, new adult romance.
My review: 5+ stars
I truly feel that Emma Scott books are best read blind, completely unspoiled. I read the blurb only and dive in. Her magic words unfold so beautifully. You know those books you love so much you wish you could go back and read for the first time again? A Five Minute Life is absolutely on that list for me. It's beautiful and heartbreaking, breathtaking and soul-wrenching, yet love and life-affirming. The journey is so worth it- this story will stay with me long after finishing. It's so unique, so powerful, and so very emotional. A must read!
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Excerpt:
“Marc Antony,” I said and nodded at
her drawing. “Part of your Egyptian studies?”
Thea leaned her cheek on her folded
hands like she was warming herself before a fire. “Marc Antony is part of the
romance. A love story with Cleopatra. He went to war for her. Died for her.
When they told her he was dead, she put her hand in a basket with an asp. Can
you imagine? Loving someone so much that the thought of life without them is
too unbearable?”
“No,” I said. “I can’t.”
Her gaze dropped to my hand on the
table and her fingers reached to trace the scars on my knuckles.
These tell a story, don’t they?” She
traced one of the fine lines. “You put your hand in with the snakes, too.”
I nodded slowly, savoring the feel
of her warm skin on mine. “So the bullies would leave me alone.”
“Eventually.”
“I’m glad.” She put her hand in mine
completely, her fingers wrapping around and holding tight. “I’m being too…
something. Personal. Delia would throw a fit, but I feel like…”
“Like what, Thea?”
“Like I have to hold on to this
moment, you know? Or you… I don’t even know you and yet I don’t want to stop
talking to you.” Her hand squeezed mine. “I don’t care if you have a stutter,
but please keep talking to me, Jimmy. Okay?”
My mouth went dry at the nameless
desperation in her eyes.
Jesus,
does she know she’s trapped? She can’t. Impossible…
“I won’t,” I said. “I’ll talk to you every
day. I promise.”
Thea breathed a small sigh of relief
and released my hand. “Thank you, Jimmy. That makes me feel better.”
With a final smile—a parting smile,
I realized—she took up her pen and then froze.
She’s
resetting.
Confusion passed over her features.
She looked up at me, flinching a little to see a big man in close proximity. I
instantly leaned back to give her space.
“How long has it been?” she asked.
“Two years,” I said, my voice hardly
more than a whisper. “But the doctors are working on your case.”
“Yes, they are.” She smiled
hesitantly and found my nametag. “I’m Thea Hughes.”
Seven.
Seven times now.
“Jim Whelan,” I said.
She offered her hand. Again. I took
it robotically, enduring her one-pump shake. Again. Her fingers didn’t linger
in mine but released immediately, the way you do with a stranger. Again.
“Nice to meet you, Jim Whelan.”
Fuck.
I can’t do this.
I rose to my feet. “I have to get to
work.”
Her face fell. “Oh. Bummer. Will I
see you again?”
I could promise her I would, but she
wouldn’t remember. There was no promise. I could tell her the sky was falling
or my name was Abraham Lincoln and she wouldn’t know the damn difference. It’d
vanish, like every other word we’d ever spoken to each other. I vanished every time her reset hit and
was recreated over again in Thea’s eyes. I could be whatever I wanted; whomever
I wanted. And yet she was the one woman I might’ve had a chance to be myself
with.
The terrible irony of it was like
copper in my mouth.
“Sure, Miss Hughes,” I said. “I’ll
see you tomorrow.”
About Emma:
Emma Scott is a bestselling author of emotional, character-driven romances in which art and love intertwine to heal, and in which love always wins. If you enjoy emotionally-charged stories that rip your heart out and put it back together again, with diverse characters and kind-hearted heroes, you will enjoy her novels.
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